Europe

The Spanish death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 95 on Wednesday. That's a slight increase from Tuesday's 83 deaths, the Department of Health said. The total death toll is now 27,888, the ministry said, while the number of…

Negotiations between Brussels and London on a future (trade) treaty again yielded little during the third round this week. After a week-long series of sessions via video connection, both parties announced that little or no progress has…

Italian bishops find it incomprehensible that Italians cannot go to Mass even after the lockdown has been relaxed. The government is also discussing this decision. Believing Italians have been unable to attend Mass since the…

More and more Germans take to the streets to protest what they consider to be too strict measures against the coronavirus. They find the rules undemocratic. German media speak of the "new angry citizens." There are already more…

Switzerland wants to relax its corona restrictions step by step. From April 27, hairdressers can get back to work. Some of the schools will be open again from May 11, as will markets and shops. And on June 8, it will be the turn of…

In France, more than 17,000 people have now died from the effects of the coronavirus, a health official said Wednesday. The total number of patients currently hospitalized has fallen for the first time since the onset of the…

The heads of government of the EU countries will hold a video conference on the corona crisis on April 23. The virtual summit will mainly focus on setting up a temporary recovery fund to get the economy back up in all Member…

The situation in French centres for the elderly is deteriorating more and more during the corona crisis. Until Tuesday, 3,200 people had died of an infection in the nursing and older people's homes. That is almost a third of all…

Since the start of the corona crisis, Germany has taken over 198 seriously ill patients from the other EU Member States. It concerns 130 patients from France, 44 from Italy and 24 from the Netherlands, says a spokesman for the…

Spain has outflanked Italy as the European country with the most corona infections. The country now has 124,736 infections, and the Italian authorities registered 124,632. This is evident from the latest figures on Saturday…